Sentence examples for beetles were fed with from inspiring English sources

Beetles were fed with the bacterial entomopathogen Pseudomonas entomophila (PE) to mimic natural infection because oral uptake of bacteria is reportedly sufficient to activate systemic immune responses associated with fitness costs in insects [ 7].

Beetles were fed with the bacterial entomopathogen Pseudomonas entomophila (to mimic natural infection), injected with peptidoglycan (experimental setting of strong immune responses) or subjected to either mild heat shock or starvation.

Adult beetles were fed daily with four to five fourth- or fifth-instar L. dispar larvae.

Beetles were fed Eucalyptus nitens (H.

These beetles were fed aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum) ad libitum.

Adult Colorado potato beetles were fed and allowed to oviposit on potato foliage.

To test for the dissemination of microsporidian spores through faeces of C. sycophanta beetles, twelve starved adult C. sycophanta (Turkey) were fed with five infectious L. dispar larvae at 16 dpi inoculated with either N. lymantriae or V. disparis.

Water was provided ad libitum and ants were fed with diluted honey and mealworms (larvae of Tenebrio molitor beetles) three times a week.

Japanese beetles, viburnum leaf beetles and Colorado potato beetles are feeding by day, and black vine weevils and twobanded Japanese weevils by night.

For example, bittersweet nightshade plants can tell whether flea beetles or tortoise beetles are feeding on their leaves, and mount a different chemical defense against each species.

During two trials in which adult lady beetle pairs were fed 5AT and 5AO aphids, forty unique pairs of lady beetles were placed on individual fava bean plants with 25 fourth instar aphids (Trial 1  N (5AO) = 15, N (5AT) = 8; Trial 2  N (5AO) = 10, N (5AT) = 7).